Insole



(N0 J. JENKINS.

INSOLE.

.No. 280,627. Patented July 3, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JABEZ JENKINS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

INSOLE.

. SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 280,627, dated July 3, 1883.

Application filed May 3, 1883. (No modem To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAB Z J ENKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Insoles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of insoles, and is an improvement on the common loose insole and its varieties.

The object of my improvement is to produce a loose insole which shall interpose an airspace between the foot and the shoe-sole when inserted in the shoe 5 and by the term loose sole I mean those insoles which consist of thicknesses of felt, flannel, leather, paper, cork, 820., and which are placed inside the shoe to protect the foot, or to improve the fit of the shoe. This I accomplish by securing to one side of the material used one or more layers of wiregauze, the loose sole being placed in the shoe with its wire face downward, and an air-space is thus formed and maintained between the foot of the wearer and the sole of the shoe, whereby the warmth of the foot is con served and the foot protected from dampness. I may also attach the wire-gauze to the common loose insole of commerce; but preferably a single thickness of leather, simply lapping over the edges of the wire-gauze and stitched thereto, is used, although I do not confine myself to any particular method of uniting the parts.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a bottom view of my improved insole; Fig. 2, a top View; Fig. 3, alongitudinal section, showing the insole as carrying one layer of wir e -gauze, and Fig. 4, asectional detail, enlarged, and showing two layers of wiregauze.

In the drawings, A represents the thick ness of leather or other material above mentioned, and B the layer or layers of wire-gauze, secured to the material in lappings a of the same by stitching b, as shown. Although any suitable wire-gauze will answer, I prefer to use the No. 20 tinned wiregauze and the covering material of leather; but any covering material which is capable of preventing the fibers of the stocking from working into the meshes of the gauze-wire would answerfor example, stout linen, canvas, or board. The cover A might also be secured in other ways than by lapping and stitching, especially if made of board or stiff leather.

I claim- As an improved article of manufacture and trade, an insole composed of wire-gauze and covered, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

.IABEZ JENKINS. 

